Effects of Religiosity and Racial Socialization on Subjective Stigmatization in African-American Adolescents.

Brega, Angela G.; Coleman, Lerita M.

Journal of Adolescence, v22 n2 p223-42 Apr 1999

Examines the direct effects of religiosity and racial socialization on subjective stigmatization among African American adolescents (N=50). Participants who showed strong commitment to the church were more destigmatized as were those who received racial socialization messages stemming from a single primary category. The more racial socialization participants received the more self-stigmatized they were. (Author/MKA)